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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Walking dead"”.
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Violence, Paratexts, and Fandoms: The Walking Dead as a Societal Mirror
… surrounding the season seven premiere of The Walking Dead “The Day Will Come When You Won’t Be” that aired on AMC on October 23rd, 2016. Focusing on paratexts, fandoms, and the violence/horror genre as the theoretical framework, the project highlights fans role in the contemporary age of …
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
… popular zombie apocalypse television series The Walking Dead (TWD) has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between survivor characters situated among the crumbling remains of society and humanity. An attempt is made to …
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We Can Come Back From This: Navigating the Perils of the Anthropocene in The Walking Dead
… I argue that the multiverse created by The Walking Dead is a platform upon which to assay a humanity post-anthropocentrism; the utopian energies (possibilities for improvement, positive potential) wrought from this study provide potentially powerful and actual physical material effects …
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EATING AWAY AT PERSONAL PREJUDICE: EXAMINING ASSIMILATION OF BLACKS AND ASIANS USING CHARACTERS FROM AMC'S THE WALKING DEAD
… or Asian character from the television show The Walking Dead, White participants would assimilate, or identify more closely with, the target characters racial group (i.e., Blacks or Asians). This assimilation was expected to lead to subsequent reduction in prejudice toward those racial groups, …
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Made for TV monsters : how has the rise of horror on US television affected the spectacle and acceptability of the genre?
… point for the genre occurred in 2010 with The Walking Dead. The first case study will consider The Walking Dead and the impact this show had on the US television and advertising industries. It will explore how The Walking Dead began to break down the boundaries between horror, film and US …
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A Discrete Density-Dependent Model of the Solanum Virus
… a unique model for the spread of the <em>The Walking Dead</em> zombie virus throughout the contiguous United States. Frequency dependent and density dependent transmission will be discussed, and density dependent transmission will be shown to be the appropriate choice for this model. Constant …
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“The Day Everything Became Nothing”: Finding Meaning in the Postapocalyptic
… Kirkman’s ongoing serialized comic book, <em>The Walking Dead</em>. After a discussion of apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fictions and their ubiquity and popularity in contemporary culture, each work will be analyzed individually to explore each author’s message regarding postapocalyptic concerns. …
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The Revenant Signifier: The Zombie in Comics and Cinema
… <br/>In contemporary horror comics, The Walking Dead series is not just commercially successful, it exploits properties of the medium (including panel arrangement, transitions, repetition, and the liminal space within the gutter) to thoroughly explore the metaphors and allusions that have …
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SCREENING THE APOCALYPSE: ZOMBIES, VISUAL ART AND THE GROTESQUE IN THE AFTERMATH OF SOCIAL TRAUMA
… (2003-2005), and George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead (2005); and the 2008-2010 Great Recession, Jillian McDonald, and AMC’s The Walking Dead Season Four (2013-2014).The zombie’s iconographic crossover marks art history’s need for a detailed history of both zombie symbolism and how the social …
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Finding gold in glitter : a framework for assessing the prospects of early stage ventures
… in a VC portfolio, two fail soon; five were walking dead and unless someone bought them out they would eventually die; two returned average returns and only one would go on to become the phenomenal success - an outlier like Google, Amazon, eBay or an YouTube, on which the entire portfolio …
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The Politics of Contagion
… in movies and shows such as Contagion and The Walking Dead, contagion events are life-altering events filled with gory symptoms and elevated mortality rates. The dangers of contagion events prompted governments to develop agencies with the purpose of preventing and mitigating the risks …